How to be a Finn if you’re a Soviet spy: KGB’s illustrated tips from the 1970s
First, I want to tell you a joke. Many a true word is spoken in jest. A scout…
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Putin has two reasons to kill his opponents and the West has to counter both, Shulipa says
Yury Shulipa, author of How Putin Kills Abroad, says that Putin has two reasons for doing away with…
New version of Hunger for Truth, film about Holodomor & Ukrainian struggle for independence, now online
The Canadian journalist who was the first to write about the 1932 genocidal famine in Ukraine — Rhea…
Bellingcat IDs GRU agent for occupied Donetsk and possible MH17 witness
Read the previous artcile: Ukraine detains deep cover GRU sleeper agent who might be highest ranking MH17 witness…
Ukraine detains deep cover GRU sleeper agent who might be highest ranking MH17 witness yet
The man is mentioned in the report by the first letter of his last name as "citizen K.",…
The political dimension of Russia’s spy war in Ukraine
Since the beginning of the undeclared Russian-Ukrainian war in early 2014, the secret services of both countries have…
Baltic intelligence agencies increasingly worry about threats from China in addition to Russia
In mid-March, the State Security Service (VDD) of Latvia published its annual public report. “While the new coronavirus…
Hunger for Truth: Documentary about Canadian journalist who was first to report about Holodomor
Her 1932 articles were published in the Toronto newspaper The Evening Telegram and were found only a few…
Acquiring agents of influence – major task of Russian spy services, Khmelnytskyi says
Moscow’s efforts to recruit spies perhaps not surprisingly has always attracted more attention than its work to recruit…
It’s not just Babich – Russian embassy in Minsk is a subversive organization
Belarusian media have focused on the ways in which Moscow’s ambassador in Minsk, Mikhail Babich, has behaved in…
Moscow has increased intel ops staff by four times since 1991 and counter-intel even more, former KGB illegal says
Western media have been fixated on a report that Moscow now has 200 case officers working in London…
Russian mercenaries fighting in Ukraine and Syria decorated with state awards, cyber sleuths reveal
Read also: Wagner mercenaries: what we know about Putin’s private army in Donbas In early October, the SBU…
Putin’s shift on Skripal case makes a broader war more likely, Pastukhov says
By insisting that Skripal deserved his fate rather than simply denying that Moscow had anything to do with…
Browder, Navalny and Pugachev likely top Putin’s hit list, Eidman says
Political murders in Russia are always ordered by the top man rather than being the decision of some…
Putin actively using Cold War Stasi agent network in Germany, Reitschuster says
Boris Reitschuster, author of Putin’s Secret War, says that the Kremlin is “actively using the old agent network”…
Moscow has complex system to run agents of influence abroad, Khmelnytskyi says
As Moscow’s geopolitical isolation has increased, Dmytro Khmelnytskyi says, the role of its agents of influence abroad and…
Who’s most at risk of assassination by Putin’s siloviki? Kirillova provides a typology
One of the reasons Vladimir Putin and his regime are able to get away with so many of…
In Skripal case, Kremlin following procedures it used for earlier political murders, Pastukhov says
At first glance, Vladimir Pastukhov says, Moscow’s approach to the Skripal scandal appears “irrational and inadequate, in fact,…
Behind the smokescreen: who are the actors spreading disinformation on ex-Russian spy Skripal?
Now, it is time to look behind the smokescreen that pro-Kremlin disinformation is puffing around. Who are the…
Putin has come out a winner in the Skripal Case, Kirillova says
Many people are looking at the tough language that London and other Western capitals have used to denounce…